On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Ford, Mike               [LSS] wrote:

> > Two exactly the same bugs were posted one minute after eachother
> > from persons on the same domain.
> 
> (Grits teeth) But it's still a duplicate report!

No, it was merely a co-worker which wanted to focus more attention on 
the bug of his friend.

> > 
> > bogus: submitted twice after each other, or by the same person on the 
> >        same topic; it's not a bug, but a support question. The reason 
> >        should always be noted in the comments
> 
> That's very confusing - there's really two different stauses in that
> definition, which I think is the crux of the problem.  The first definition
> really needs a new status such as "Repeat", which is otherwise treated like
> Bogus.  But this definition is interesting, because I think some responders
> are not respecting the "by the same person" part.
> 
> > dupli: almost the same bug, both bugs are found 'duplicate' later on
> >        and have both useful information
> 
> Yes, fair enough.  I just get the feeling that, lately, the balance has
> tipped too far towards labelling repeat reports Bogus -- personally, I think

That's only because we get more and more stupid bogus bug reports.

> H'mmm, interesting -- I don't think I've ever seen that list before --
> certainly not linked from anywhere obvious such as http://bugs.php.net/, or
> http://bugs.php.net/search.php.  Perhaps a "what happens to bug reports"
> sort of link would be useful on the bugs front page, to complement "How to
> report a bug"?

Feel free to make a patch to php-bugs-web.

Derick

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